Category: Biography
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David Cassidy-Teen Idol
Meet David Cassidy Hudson 1972 As the resident “elder” at ALB, I can tell you that Cassidy was all that and a bag of chips in the early 1970s. Since this was the early 1970s and Cassidy was about 22, so this is mostly just fluff and stuff about the…
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Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone Daugherty 1939 Submitter: In Daniel Boone, Native Americans are variously described as savages, demons, “rats in the night,” “infesting the woods,” cat-eyed, and “as doomed as the buffalo.” White skin or white racial identity is frequently painted as superior to other races, for example: “The great landlords were…
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Bye Bye Bye
*NSYNC Boekhoff and Kallen 2003 Submitter: This book is ‘tearing up my heart’ knowing it’s still sitting on the shelf all these years. So who’s going to weed this book? “It’s gonna be me.” I guess I could have gone with Bye Bye Bye old book… Holly: This was published just as…
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Victim of Love
The Cars Kamin and Goddard 1986 Submitter: This was an excellent book about a local band to purchase for this library. 35 years later, the band split up, reunite under a new name, reunite under the old name, and saw two of the found members die, and all not covered…
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Al Franken
Al Franken: Giant of the Senate Franken 2017 Submitter: So, I was making a delivery of intra-network media transfers to a local college library the other day, and as I was waiting for the right person to accept the delivery and fetch my pick-up, my eyes scanned the shelves, just…
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Secrets about Fonzie
The Truth About Fonzie Herz 1976 From the Happy Days Files, here is the definitive work about the Fonz. Happy Days was a family favorite back when I was a teenager. I am sure if you are my age or older you probably did invoke the phrase “sit on it”…
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